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Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Alas how difficult is it to preserve a high reputation!
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under read more
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonorable graves.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
To deceive ones selfe is very easie.
A little Kitchin makes a large house.
A little Kitchin makes a large house.
To a child all weather is cold.
To a child all weather is cold.
Much matter decocted into few words.
Much matter decocted into few words.
No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
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No check, no stay this streamlet fears:
How merrily it goes!
'Twill murmur on a thousand years,
And flow as now it flows.
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
I am not what I once was.
[Lat., Non sum qualis eram.]
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
A pound of idleness weighs twenty ounces.
